Everyone understood it, but Patriarch Xuanqing's heart, which had long since ceased to beat, still felt a chill.
"So you actually want to annex the Qilin Kingdom to raise Suzaku?!"
But even so, I have never heard of people who focus on other people's production without any hesitation. Even Arakan has always been hated and hated by people. To be honest, the living environment for people is really too difficult.
Wanting to stay alive, they kept staring at the Qilin Kingdom that was closest to them.
Of course, this is not to say that Huangchan is right or understands the other party's helplessness, that is a disease; but, this is the truth, among countries, only our country has a difficult living environment and a difficult life for its people.
Is this why we keep looking at neighboring countries?!
It's like the kind of thing where you obviously have land to plant and property to rely on, but I just don't want to touch it and I just want to snatch it from you. Anyway, he hasn't seen it so far.
Qi Baoer also knows that his ancestors have misunderstood, but this cannot be blamed on his ancestors. We don’t know what it was like thousands of years ago, but nowadays, in terms of regional divisions of countries, let’s say with conscience that Qilin Country is indeed a block.
Big Fatty.
"After thousands of years due to climate and environmental factors, our Qilin Country, which is located in a relatively central location, is richer in products than other countries, not only those small countries, but also the four major countries, and the same is true for minerals.
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Especially the land related to people's livelihood, the land of Qilin Kingdom is also the most suitable place for planting.
Like Black Turtle located in the north, the entire country is exposed to wind and snow almost all year round. Only one-fifth of its land area can survive. How many places in this fifth are suitable for farming?
The entire white tiger country in the south is almost in a wetland. Most of their states are independent islands. Even the palace is on a large island. Planting is also a problem. The staple food is mainly seafood.
As for the mines, there may be mines under the water, but ancestors, how many of us do you think can tap the mines under the sea with our current capabilities?"
Qi Bao'er doesn't need to explain these words, but Old Ancestor Xuan Qing also understands that there are Ah Piao from different worlds under the underworld, some from the technological era, and even from the interstellar era, so regarding matters like mining in the sea, Old Xuan Qing
Zu also heard about it from A Piao who came down from the technological age.
"Qinglong is slightly better, but Qinglong Country is too hot. Many places are deserts where rain does not fall all the year round. People can barely survive and just plant them. As for minerals, even if there are mines found in such an environment, they will not be able to survive."
How to mine?”
"Let's talk about Suzaku again. Suzaku country is a place prone to volcanoes."
Knowing that Patriarch Xuanqing was knowledgeable, Qi Baoer had no worries about using terms that were only used in the previous life.
"However, many volcanoes are already extinct, but they have all erupted in the past, because the volcanoes are so densely packed together that almost the entire Suzaku underground has been covered by the magma erupted by the volcano.
Although after tens of millions of years there has been soil and trees have grown on it, the quality of the soil is very average, and in some places there is at least no grass at all."
In other words, among the five major countries, Suzaku is the country with the poorest land, but it is the country with the richest mineral resources among the five major countries, but Suzaku himself does not know it.
There are so many minerals that volcanic fields can bring, including diamonds, sulfur, gold, silver, copper, uranium, iron, aluminum, zinc, alunite, zeolite, sulfur and other metals, non-metallic minerals and diamonds, corundum
, deposits of gemstones such as quartzite and garnet.
However, only gold, silver and copper were valued by Suzaku, and other people in the Suzaku country did not pay attention to their importance.
The reason why Suzaku has become a great nation and has endured for many years is that they have hundreds of gold, silver and copper mines. If they need food, weapons, etc., they can buy them with gold and silver.
To put it bluntly, the land is not that good but the money is there.
"The Suzaku Kingdom not only has hundreds of gold, silver and copper mines in the hands of the imperial court, but also has its own private mines in the hands of almost all powerful people. Originally, the common people did not farm much. The most important thing for the people of the Suzaku Kingdom is
The source of livelihood is mining.
There are beggars in our country, but there are no beggars in their country, so they are just digging for sand."
What is digging out sand?
Gold and silver mines are not just lumps of gold and silver left out for you to dig. They are all gold-containing ores and silver-containing ores that need to be refined.
After the gold, silver, and copper are extracted from the ore, the remaining waste residue is naturally thrown away as useless.
But, there is still more or less gold and silver in the dumped waste residue. The so-called sand remover is to continuously wash the waste residue in the water. Gold and silver are relatively heavy, and the waste residue has become powder than gold.
Silver is much lighter. If you rinse it with water a few times, if there is gold and silver left, then you have to dig it out.
If you are lucky, you may even get gold nuggets and silver nuggets the size of your thumb.
Although sand diggers seem to be getting free words just like beggars, this profession is much more dangerous than beggars.
First of all, the waste piles are poisonous, and almost all those who dig up the sand have physical deformities and short lifespans;
Second, the industry of sand diggers is highly competitive. In many places, they even form gangs and often fight over a scrap heap;
Third, the receipt of the goods was not satisfactory. How could the miners allow a large amount of gold and silver in the waste pile? They would feel distressed if there was a piece as big as a small fingernail in it, okay?
Therefore, the life of those who dig sand in the Suzaku Kingdom is far worse than that of the beggars in the Qilin Kingdom.
"Last year, the Suzaku Nation's treasury deposited six billion taels. It sounds like a scary amount, right? But, ancestors, last year the Suzaku Nation spent nearly three billion taels just to buy grain from other countries."
This is because Zhuque's court no longer cares much about the people at the bottom. It is said that the food distributed to the people is less than half of the year before. Starting from the second half of last year, many people in Zhuque already have gold and silver in their hands, but they don't buy
No food.
"This is just a matter of food. Although there are many Zhuque Mountains, there are few forests. Many places are in a place with ventilation on all sides. We have four seasons all year round. They are amazing. Some places are hot and cold all year round.
It's so hot that you can't even tell how many seasons it has.
Food is difficult to preserve, and clothing deteriorates quickly when replaced.
What’s even more difficult is that acid rain still occasionally falls in some places in Suzaku.”
The daily life of the people in the five major countries can be divided as follows: Qilin - rich; Qinglong - rich; Black turtle - well-off; White tiger - food and clothing; Suzaku - abject poverty.
Putting it this way, it seems that it is not difficult to understand that Suzaku is eyeing the big fat sheep Qilin Kingdom.
Especially in the past ten years, Qilin Kingdom has encouraged maritime transportation. Almost every coastal city has built docks. It is one thing to make the economy more efficient by doing more transactions with other countries. The most important thing is that many maritime merchants have started from some unknown countries.
The people's island brought back increased food production.
For example, a maritime trader brought back cold-resistant seaweed seeds and presented them to the imperial court. The emperor ordered a trial planting. After the planting was successful, the first batch of seeds were all sent to the north and distributed to the people as seeds. Now the place is not